Prototyping is one of basic and very important process of designing anything but in this case robots. Prototyping is an early model or example of the expectation of the final and actual product. One of the greatest things about prototyping is finding ‘errors’ before having the final product. Although, it could be very frustrating but at the end it will be worth it.

Our very own Mr. Babahekian is in charge of building a practice field.

Today, he is building the field goal. Unfortunately, we have a limited amount of wood parts, so he’s improvising. When asked how things with the field are going, Mr. Babahekian, mentor, math teacher, husband, and father, has this to say:

Designing is the first step when it comes to the building process. Now that Build Season is in full swing our team is beginning to prototype our robot. We are in the beginning stages of prototyping an intake system that will be used on our robot.

It’s the second Tuesday of the season, and Team 4 is right on schedule. Since Kick-Off, we have discussed and have to a conclusion as to what we think a winning robot competing in Aerial Assist would be able to do. Since then, we have designed, programmed, prototyped, and tested different aspects of our robot.

Presently, several members of Team 4 are prototyping and testing different mechanisms. Henry Williams and Mathew Siegal (11th grade,) for example, are building a release system prototype.

Our handy-dandy programmers are working on the code that will make our robot drive straight.

Otherwise, the members of Team 4 are building the robot’s siderail, assembling the pnuematic system, and designing and prototyping an intake system. There’s still a lot to do this Build Season, but we are well on our way!

Although waking up at 6 am was not the easy, we couldn’t be more excited about this new year and competition. We started our first day with a delicious breakfast, and then moved on into watching the announcement of Aerial Assist.

After going over the manual and its rules as a team, we started our brainstorming by playing the game as if we were the robots…

As the brainstorming went on for the entire day — stills going on– we tried prioritizing the functions of our robot.

The crew finished fixing our four handed friend’s gearbox today, Machamp. The axel was slipping. This year’s new members continue working on their VEX robots. Last week, we received our shipment of VEX apparatus parts and the entire Team is looking forward to building it. One group out of the fourteen has already finished their robots.